It’s Pi Day 2022: Know About Some Interesting Facts

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 every year, and mathematicians all across the world commemorate the constant Pi.

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For millennia, mathematicians have enjoyed calculating Pi's record digits. Today let's talk about some interesting facts about Pi.

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Pi is an irrational number which can never be expressed as a fraction. It is popularly called the “infinite decimal” among Mathematicians.

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Pi represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and no matter what size the circle is, the ratio will stay constant.

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The current world record for reciting the most number of post-decimal Pi values was achieved by Rajveer Meena for reciting 70,000 digits in under 9.5 hours.

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The number Pi has been around for longer than Christianity. Many records show that the Babylonians knew of Pi four millennia ago. They calculated pi as 3.125.

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